New outlook Volume 122 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...be turned over to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans for public use, and the third will be retained for Government use. The construction work on the new Inner Harbor is in the hands of the genius that made the Panama Canal a reality--the Goethals Engineering Company. The enterprise is under the direct supervision of the Board of Port Commissioners, or Dock Board, a state institution. In this connection it may be said that the harbor of New Orleans as a whole furnishes a striking example of successful ownership and operation of public utilities. Sixty per cent of the port facilities have ( Th It it the TMrtl nf a Seria of AdrrrturmcnL il INNER HARBOR 1LASCB PONTC been built or developed by the Dock Board, and in the seventeen years this Board has had charge more than $15,000,000 has been expended on wharves, steel sheds, elevators and warehouses on the east bank of the Mississippi. These, with terminals built by the railroads, give New Orleans almost eight miles of docks, capable of accommodating at one time eighty vessels each 500 feet in length. All are served by the Public Belt Railroad, another triumph of public ownership and the only one of its kind in the country. The Port of New Orleans is one of the safest harbors in the world, and provides practically unlimited anchorage space. The depth of water on the anchorage grounds is from 60 to 80 feet at low stage, and the River depth on the harbor front is as much as 190 feet at some points. In normal times prior to the European war New Orleans had taken rank as the second greatest seaport in the United States. With the certain expansion of world trade and with the tremendous additional advantages to be provided by the new Inner Harbor and Industrial Canal, New Orleans may confidently ant...